Ayat is an English facilitator at the UNICEF's Makani (“my place”, in Arabic) centre in the Al Rajeeb Community, which serves the most vulnerable children from the area: the Dom community (around 2,000 people of which 60% are children and mothers), as well as Kurds and Syrians. To tackle early marriage and child labour, Al Rajeeb center raises awareness on how important education is for children, while offering families support services such as child protection, early childhood programmes, life skills and innovation labs, and awareness lessons for parents. With time, the idea that children have the right to education has become more embedded in parents’ minds.